[Lustre-discuss] ext3 and over 8Tb OSTs

[Andreas Dilger]

On 2010-03-04, at 16:08, syed haider wrote:
> Bug 17569 states that ldiskfs.ko built on releases > 1.8.1 will not  
> allow 8tb OSTs to be mounted because there may be possible  
> corruption. This bug was fixed by adding a "force_over_8tb" option.
> Is anyone running > 8tb OSTs on ext3 out there? Any problems? What  
> type of corruption are they talking about?


You misread the announcement.  You need to have the ext4-based ldiskfs  
in order to use > 8TB OSTs.  This one does not have the  
"force_over_8tb" option (but instead a "force_over_16tb" option).

I wonder if it makes sense to just disable this option for the ext3- 
based ldiskfs and require that anyone using > 8TB OSTs use the ext4- 
based ldiskfs?  That would avoid any confusion/problems as above.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.